ScissorMan
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This has always been one of my pet subjects, though it seems like it might be a bit all-encompassing for a forum thread. So... are you more interested in songs that nobody else even attempted to cover (presumably because the original was…I'm not really an Ambient fan/aficionado (or even close to being one), but this record just showed up on Bandcamp as a NYOP, and after listening to the whole thing I thought it might be worth mentioning — it's mostly guitar-based atmospheric-ty…You hear a fantastic group from that period of greatest rock innovation (late 60s/early 70s) whose album(s) didn't sell well and they then just faded into obscurity. Don't you ask yourself why!?
Not to sound di…
Here's a good example:(Quote)This is really fascinating (at least for me), because it's just like rummaging through my (late) father's record collection back in the mid-60s. He'd just bought his first component stereo rig (they always called it "hi-fi" back …Some fans are actually online radio stations or music podcasts, so in addition to the fact that you can "follow" them, when they buy new (or new-ish) stuff to play on their shows, that stuff will appear on their fan pages — which is sometimes h…I would assume that most of the time, the reason you don't see an artist's projects aggregated in one listing is because the artist doesn't want you to see them aggregated as one listing. And the same is true of many, if not most, of the other …Phil Spector, convicted murderer, general all-around nutcase, and one of the greatest record producers of all time
Sylvain Sylvain, rhythm guitarist for the New York Dolls (who also made some fairly good solo pop-rock albums)
(Quote)This is almost exactly why I decided to be "childless by choice"...Still, some of the posters do have the right idea. Personally I'd avoid the Eno/Fripp route and go with something like Kraftwerk -> Yello -> Ryui…
Matthew Seligman, original bass player for the Soft Boys and the Thompson Twins who later played with David B…Gang of Four's Andy Gill.
Doris Day (1922-2019)
(Quote)I have to admit, I stopped checking eMusic regularly after they got rid of the daily free track, and I stopped checking it altogether about two years ago. But I checked just now, and there are still a few indie-rock labels there,…Ex-Figurines frontman Christian Hjelm released a really nice pop album earlier this year called in The Danish Hit Parade Comment by ScissorMan December 2018The members of Danish dreamo-shoegaze band Dorias Baracca have finally released the album they rec…Proggie culture is different from what most modern-era people are used to. There, they celebrate the Caps Lock key; they don't suppress it like the rest of society. Also, they seem to like fried mozzarella sticks a lot, for some reason.
Are we even counting those at this point?
I've already moved my eMu bookmark so far down the list in my browser that I don't check it for days at a time. Maybe that's what eMu wants, though... I keep saying "maybe I'll go back," but since…I like to chain my Pokémon to a block, as a kind of best-of-both-worlds solution.
That's not fair; most of us will also post when our free thing is restored.
I BLAME TRUMP!
Seriously, Trump probably put the Russians up to it, so that they're now flooding the New Releases pages with vast quantities of cheaply-produced cookie-cutter EDM and Techno material, all in an effort to demoralize the pop…Ditto. I suspect the person who's now in charge of it has... an agenda.
Well, that's not entirely fair - most of these fluffbucket-lounge and "smooth jazz for restaurants" albums are also available on Amazon and iTunes too (though for slightly-higher prices). In the past, those sites did what eMusic didn't do, namely cu…I managed to sit through all two seasons of "Glitch," and while it wasn't bad, the science was completely implausible and it did come pretty close to devolving into another "save the baby at all costs!" and motherhood-conquers-all show at the end. S…They referred to us using the phrase "our eMusers and Reddit communities," implying that they have a bit more influence here than they actually do. (AFAIK they don't have any direct influence here at all.) Not that this should bother anyone, …Johnny Hallyday, victim of lung cancer at age 74
Tommy Keene, gone at age 59